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The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it

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Forty-two percent of corporate AI initiatives are being abandoned as platform giants natively absorb standalone agentic, browsing, and automation workflows into their core models. This aggressive consolidation means building thin wrapper tools or general-purpose orchestration layers is no longer a viable production strategy. To avoid having your pipeline rendered obsolete by upstream updates, you must shift engineering resources away from basic agentic workflows and focus entirely on deeply integrated, proprietary domain logic.